NEW PAPER: Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice

This new paper uses multivariate analysis and null network models to investigate how weather impacts the prey communities, diet, foraging choices and web structures of spiders in cereal crops, and how these data could be used to inform predictive models.

Primer time: a rollercoaster ride through metabarcoding PCR primer design

This was originally posted on Biocoenosis, a blog jointly run by Jordan and FERG collaborator Max Tercel. If you want a short synopsis on metabarcoding (and dietary metabarcoding more specifically), plough on, but if you're here for some tips and tricks, scroll down to the PCR primer design subheading. Now more than ever, PCR hasContinue reading "Primer time: a rollercoaster ride through metabarcoding PCR primer design"